In an initiative aimed
at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President
Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions
of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are
not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government
documents.

The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat
Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions
of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for “high-risk
persons or behaviors” among co-workers. Those who fail to report them
could face penalties, including criminal charges.